For any Formula 1 fans here

[Dubai Vol]

As you are aware, Max Mosely has been confirmed to continue as FIA president.

I spent a couple of hours last night writing emails to all the teams AND all their main sponsors, telling them that I am boycotting them and their products specifically because they are affiliated with the FIA. Let them get a few million letters like that and see how long Max stays.


I've done my part, I urge you to do the same.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I was a big fan, but I'm hopefull to become one again now they're removing electronic aides from the cars. If the launch control goes, I'm back. Still watch every race I can.

Max Mosely's way of wasting time is off no concern to me.

 

[classical_hero]

Wrong Forum. I have lost faith in F1 a long time ago.

 

[nonconformist]

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[holy king]

what did he do? except for having a funny fetish?

igloodude, where are you?

 

[Catharsis]

Why should he leave? He's not incompetent or corrupt, he just had sex with a few prostitutes. Hardly perfect, but as it's a flaw in his personal life and not his professional life, it's strange to see how the media and general public have jumped on Moseley in this way.

 

[Grisu]

meh, what he does with his hookers is of no concern to me, as long as all involved parties where consenting adults...

but then, I never really was interested in F1 to begin with

 

[really]

From the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7437083.stm

"On Tuesday Mosley won 103 of 169 votes in a process he called after the News of the World reported that he had taken part in a "Nazi-style orgy" with prostitutes.

Mosley, the son of former British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, accepts he visited the prostitutes but denies there were Nazi overtones."

A big part of the issue is that his dad was a very senior fascist in the UK.

I think if he goes so should Prince Harry.

 

[holy king]

From the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7437083.stm

"On Tuesday Mosley won 103 of 169 votes in a process he called after the News of the World reported that he had taken part in a "Nazi-style orgy" with prostitutes.

Mosley, the son of former British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, accepts he visited the prostitutes but denies there were Nazi overtones."

A big part of the issue is that his dad was a very senior fascist in the UK.

I think if he goes so should Prince Harry.

i dont know, i guess dominas being linked to nazism isnt that uncommon during such practices...

 

[nonconformist]

The fact here isn't that he's got a nazi fetish; it's that his dad was a fascist nazi lapdog who had Adolf Hitler as the guest of honour at his wedding.

 

[holy king]

The fact here isn't that he's got a nazi fetish; it's that his dad was a fascist nazi lapdog who had Adolf Hitler as the guest of honour at his wedding.

well, they've been knowing that for decades, right?

"they've been knowing"? ah, whatever...

 

[nonconformist]

well, they've been knowing that for decades, right?

"they've been knowing"? ah, whatever...

Yeah, this is common knowledge, but his fetish highlights that he has some fascist tendencies. He could at least be quite considerate about this.

I mean, it's like, for example, Albert Speer's son being caught in a Waffen-SS historical reconstructrion club; it's not what he's doing, it's who he is.

 

[holy king]

Yeah, this is common knowledge, but his fetish highlights that he has some fascist tendencies. He could at least be quite considerate about this.

I mean, it's like, for example, Albert Speer's son being caught in a Waffen-SS historical reconstructrion club; it's not what he's doing, it's who he is.

i think in this case it could be interpreted as him enacting his suffering under his family's nazi past. could be just his way of dealing with it without actually dealing with it.

 

[Sofista]

One loss for painted sepulchres.

Time to celebrate.

 

[Fronx]

I don't get the idea behind this.

Last time I checked western society was a free one. What someone does on his freetime is his issue (as long as it is legal, and I have understood that no law was broken).

 

[luiz]

The fact here isn't that he's got a nazi fetish; it's that his dad was a fascist nazi lapdog who had Adolf Hitler as the guest of honour at his wedding.

His father could have been Hitler himself for all I care; we gave up punishing the descendants of criminals a long time ago.

 

[raketooy]

I think it's perfectly ok that Mosley stay in his position. What he did isn't probably even illegal, and it is his personal life and has absolutely nothing to do with his professional career.

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Moved the sports talk.

 

[azzaman333]

Unless what he did was illegal, move on IMO.

 

[Fronx]

What I actually would like to point out is, that those whom are shouting for Mosley to resign, are suspect to being fascists and intolerant against other peoples sexual orientation.

If I stretch it a LOT, it's like thinking that because Max is black / gay / forgeiner / different, he should resign! Its the same, basicly.


In 2008, atleast in europe, individualism is the word, and everyone is free to be and do whatever he wishes (be it homosexual intercourse, voting for republican, watching football or liking a spanking from a girl dressed up as a nazi every now and then, as said, as long as it is legal).


So people are being intolerant towards different sexual behaviour in this case. Imo that is the scandal here, not the Mosley.